Jam roly poly

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Preparation info
  • To Serve

    Four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

  • About

This is one of those comfortable old English recipes that have gone completely out of fashion today, but are still much loved by many, partly for childhood associations and partly because they are so good and warming.

Ingredients

  • 100 g (4 oz) self-raising flour
  • 50 g (2

Method

Mix the flour, suet and salt in a bowl, and then stir in, with the blade of a knife, just enough water to bind the mixture to a light dough. Roll it out to an oblong shape. Make it fairly thin, about 1 cm (¼ in), and then spread the centre lavishly with jam leaving a 3-cm (1-in) margin all the way down each side and at one end. Roll it up loosely starting from the other end, and enclose it in a